matching transfer express maroon numbers?

[whitewater]

We use Union mixo maroon - we need to put a print and a number on a jersey. but we dont want them to be a drastic shades of maroon. What color could we use to turn the darker maroon into a slightly lighter shade. Turns darker when coming out of dryer.

Im horrible with maroons and browns.

thanks

[jvanick]

can't offer much advice here, other than that I hear ya.... I am purple/brown color-blind... so doing anything with purples/browns/maroons, I will match wrong nearly every time.

The Transfer Express pantone numbers don't match their color samples, and they change year to year, so good luck.

[XG Print]

can't offer much advice here, other than that I hear ya.... I am purple/brown color-blind... so doing anything with purples/browns/maroons, I will match wrong nearly every time.

The Transfer Express pantone numbers don't match their color samples, and they change year to year, so good luck.

The last statement is so true!!  Their pantone numbers are not even close!!

[Frog]

best I can suggest (and what I'd do) is visually compare the transfers with Pantone swatches and mix to that color rather than stock maroon.

[Sbrem]

You need to have the transfers first, so you can match by eye, and start from scratch, you can't really "lighten" maroon without wrecking it (do not add white). Having mixed a lot wasted ink, I'm just warning you, in case you haven't made that particular mistake yet...

Steve

[Prosperi-Tees]

Yellow MAY help lighten it.

[Frog]

Looking at the formula, if you don't want to do a different Pantone mix, just reduce the amount of black.
If you don't want to start from scratch, do it by adding more of the two reds to your maroon, keeping their proportional relationship the same.

[whitewater]

ive done the white thing in the past..LOL

frog...thats greek to me...

[Frog]

ive done the white thing in the past..LOL

frog...thats greek to me...

Perhaps then you meant that you use Maxo Maroon rather than Mixo? That's the Mixo formula I posted.

[Prosperi-Tees]

The yellow shade red would help

[Frog]

The yellow shade red would help

Yeah, first I was afraid that Whitey didn't understand the formula because he really meant that he uses Maxopaque Maroon, then I realized that he may have meant that he merely didn't understand what I said about keeping his two reds in the same proportion to each other but cutting down on the black (or just adding those two reds to existing mix)

edit, sorry that I originally referenced Zoo rather than whitewater

[whitewater]

These are on some augusta poly power yellow. I did a test number on a bright yellow drifit, the maroon numbers are darker on those when pressed so maybe i dont have a problem. I know that on cotton the numbers are a different shade.